Friday, August 03, 2007

Led by seismic subprime holdings, the roiling debt markets are casting a pall over the entire real estate sector. And so they should: published reports put the total number of unsold loans sitting in financial institutions' warehouses waiting to be resold at around $260 billion in the US and another $200 billion in Europe. And with investment spigots turning off across the US, that money is going to sit for a while. . . .